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One of virtues that have been narrated for Usman Ben Afan is marriage with two daughters of the messenger of God (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) with the names '' Roghaye'' and '' Um Gulthum''. There are different opinions about this matter; the Sunni scientists insist on this matter firmly. However, on the other hand, some of the Shiite researchers believe that none of the wives of Usman were the daughter of the prophet. But they were the nieces of Hazrat Khadije and they have mentioned reasons for this probability which we will narrate these reasons briefly without any comments and we will leave judge to the dear readers.
Reasons that have been mentioned about this matter
1. Lack of existence of friendly relationship between the prophet and other daughters of Hazrat Muhammad;
Referring to the biography of Hazrat Muhammad and paying attention to it, we can understand that a lot of narrations show friendly relationship between the prophet of the Islam and her honorable daughter, Sedighe Tahere (peace be upon her); whenever the prophet of the Islam travelled, Fateme was the last person that said goodbye to her and whenever he came back his journey first of all, he visited Fateme and knocked her door. A lot of narrations prove this friendly relationship in the Shiite and Sunni books. For example, most of the Shiite and Sunni scientists have narrated one of titles of Hazrat Fateme '' Um Abiha''. Ibn Hajar Asghalani in the book '' Tahzib and Al-Asabe'' and Zahabi in the book '' Seir Alam Al-Nabla and Al-Kashef'' have writtenفاطمة الزهراء ... كانت تكنى أم أبيها .
No narration, even weak narration, has been narrated in the Shiite and Sunni books that the prophet of the Islam knocked the door of the house of Roghaye and Um Gulthum. Why didn't the prophet of the Islam (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) have this friendly relationship with other his own daughters neither in Medina nor even in Mecca? According to the Sunni scientists, weren't they the memories of Hazrat Khadije?
Even although Fateme Zahra was more distinctive than all of the women of the world in any aspects, if the prophet had had a daughter except Fateme, it was appropriate, there would have had this friendly relationship between them.
In addition, when the polytheists of the Ghoreish Tribe bothered the prophet of the Islam, where were other daughters of the messenger of God to support their father? Bokhari and Sahih have written in the book Sahih''
It has been narrated from Ibn Masud that said '' when the prophet of God (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) was praying across from the house of God, Abu Jahl and his friends had sat beside the house of God and a child of camel had been killed the day before yesterday. Abu Jahl said to his friends '' which one of you is ready to bring the rumen of that camel and when Muhammad (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) is prostrating, put it on his shoulder? One of them that had the worst personality accepted and performed the order of Abu Jahl. When the prophet (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) was prostrating, he put the dirty rumen on his shoulder. Seeing this scene, Abu Jahl and his friends laughed as much as much as some of them fall on others.
Ibn Masud says '' in such time, I had stood on the corner and I was observing the event, but I did not dare to pick up the rumen from the shoulder of Hazrat Muhammad. The prophet (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) was already prostrating and he never stopped prostrating until a man rushed to the presence of Hazrat Zahra (peace be upon her) and expressed the event to her. When Hazrat Fateme (peace be upon her) was sad of hearing this remark, she came, picked it up from the shoulder of Hazrat Muhammad (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) and admonished them.
Only person that came to the prophet, soothed her father in his troubles and treated his wounds was Fateme Zahra. If they had been the daughter of the messenger of God, it was appropriate that they should have helped Fateme in defending her father.
When the face of the prophet was wounded, where were Roghaye and Um Gulthum to clean the wounds of their father like Fateme?
According to their narration, they were the daughters of the prophet. Therefore, why wasn't there any relationship between the prophet of the Islam and other his daughters?
When the prophet chose his close relatives in the story of Mobahele, why didn't he take other his daughters and he chose only Fateme among women?
Mosalam has written in the book '' Sahih''
Amer Ben Sad Ben Inughas has narrated from his father (Sad Ben Inughas) that he ordered Moavie Sad and said '' what is problem for you to abuse Abu Torab (Ali Ben Abi Taleb (peace be upon him))? Sad said '' I have three things (three virtues) from him in my mind that the messenger of God (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) bade about him I will never abuse him). If I had had one of these three virtues, it would have been more beloved than camels with red hair. When this verse was descended,
(... فقل تعالوا ندع أبناءنا و أبناءكم و نساءنا و نساءكم و أنفسنا و أنفسكم ...
The prophet (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) summoned Ali, Fateme, Imam Hasan (peace be upon him) and Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) and bade '' O' God! These are my family''.
Didn't the word '' Nesana'' include other daughters of the prophet or did the prophet another daughter except Sedighe Tahere?
3. Why did no one propose marriage to the daughters of the prophet?
Another event that proves the falsity of this story is that it has not been recorded in the history that each one of the migrants or the supporters proposed marriage to Um Gulthum although they competed with each other in order to propose marriage to Fateme Zahra and to achieveto the honor of being the brother-in-law of the prophet and everyone liked to achieve to such honor. Wasn't Um Gulthum the daughter of the prophet or there was not such daughter at all?
4. Respect between the daughters of the messenger of God and the daughters of the enemy of the messenger of God:
The Sunni scientists and Mohaddesin have narrated, in order to criticize Amir Al-Momenin, that Hazrat Ali proposed marriage to the daughter of Abu Jahl when Hazrat Fateme Zahra (peace be upon him) was his wife. This matter made Sedighe Tahere sad and it made her complain about it in the presence of the prophet. When the prophet of the Islam informed of this story, he came to the mosque angrily and said
وَإِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّي وَإِنِّي أَكْرَهُ أَنْ يَسُوءَهَا وَاللَّهِ لَا تَجْتَمِعُ بِنْتُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَبِنْتُ عَدُوِّ اللَّهِ عِنْدَ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ .
Fateme is a part of my body. I do not like someone makes her sad. I swear God that the daughter of the messenger of God and the daughter of the enemy of God get together in the presence of one person.
They have written in another narration that Hazat Muhammad
إِلَّا أَنْ يُرِيدَ ابْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ أَنْ يُطَلِّقَ ابْنَتِي وَيَنْكِحَ ابْنَتَهُمْ فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّي يُرِيبُنِي مَا أَرَابَهَا وَيُؤْذِينِي مَا آذَاهَا .
If Imam Ali (peace be upon him) wants to marry the daughter of Abu Jahl, he should divorce my daughter. Fateme is a part of my body and whatever makes Fateme sad hurts me…
Since the matter of degrading the rank of Amir Al-Momenin ( peace be upon him) has been discussed, the Sunni scientists have exaggerated in narrating this story without knowing that Usman Ben Afan compared the daughters of the prophet and the daughters of the enemies of God not once but several times.
Ramele, the daughter of Shibe, was one of the wives of Usman that married her in Mecca and she was one of persons that migrated to Media along with Usman.
Ibn Abd Al-Ber has written about this matter
رملة بنت شيبة بن ربيعة كانت من المهاجرات هاجرت مع زوجها عثمان بن عفان.
Ramele, the daughter of Shibe, was one of persons along with her husband, Usman, migrated to Media.
In addition, Usman married Um Al-Banin, the daughter of Eine, and Fatem, the daughter of Al-Valid Ben Abd Shams whereas their fathers were the enemies of God.
If comparing the daughter of the messenger of God and the daughter of enemy of God had been haram, why would Ibrahim have committed over and over again? If not, why wouldn't the prophet of the Islam (according to the narration of the Sunni scientists) have let Amir Al-Momenin do such action and he would have wanted to make the prohibited action by God acceptable? Therefore, it turns out whether it was for proposing marriage to the daughter of Abu Jahl that was one of lies of Bani Omaye or the prophet of the Islam did not have any daughters except Sedighe Tahere.
5. One of reasons that proves the falsity of this story is that most of the Sunni scientists, such as Ziya Al-Moghadasi, have said
عن قتادة ، قال : ولدت خديجة لرسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم ) : عبد مناف في الجاهلية ، وولدت له في الاسلام غلامين ، وأربع بنات : القاسم ، وبه كان يكنى : أبا القاسم ، فعاش حتى مشى ، ثم مات ، و عبد الله ، مات صغيرا . وأم كلثوم . وزينب . ورقية . وفاطمة ... .
Ghetade has said '' Khadije gave birth to Abd Monaf for the prophet of the Islam in the ignorance era and after the Islam, she gave birth to two sons and four daughters with names Ghasem, …because of him, the title of the prophet was called '' Abu Al-Ghasem''. She was as lively as she could walk. Then she passed away and Abdullah that was child passed away. She gave birth to Um Gultgum, Zeinab, Roghaye and Fateme.
On the other hand, they have written that Roghaye was the youngest daughter of the messenger of God and even she was younger than Hazrat Zahra (peace be upon him) as Ibn Kasir Dameshghi has written
أكبر ولده عليه الصلاة والسلام القاسم ، ثم زينب ، ثم عبد الله ، ثم أم كلثوم ثم فاطمة ثم رقية ...
Ghasem was the oldest child of the prophet (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) and after him, Zeinab, Abdullah, Um Gulthum, Fateme and Roghaye were the children of the prophet respectively.
With such explanation, is it possible to confirm that Roghaye married Usman and she migrated to Habashe with him and she aborted her child from him in the ship although we know that the first migration to Habashe took place in the fifth year after Besat.
In addition, most of the Sunni scientists have written that Um Gulthum and Roghaye were the wives of the sons of Abi Lahab before they married Usman. After the Surah of Tabbat was descended about Abi Lahab , he ordered his children to divorce the daughters of the messenger of God. Ibn Asir has written in the book '' Asad Al-Ghabe''
The messenger of God had his daughter, Roghaye, Atabe, the son of Abi Lahab, and Um Gulthum, Atibe, the other son of Abu Lahab. When the Surah of Tabat was descended, Abu Lahab and his wife, Um Jamil that is the same '' Hamale Al-Hotob'' ordered his sons to divorce the daughters of Muhammad. Then they divorced them…
We know that the Surah of Tabat was descended when the Muslims were surrounded in Shoab Abi Taleb. Siuti has written in the book '' Al-Dor Al-Mansur''
The Siege took place in the sixth year of Besat and after the migration to Habashe.
In spite of the said remarks, is it possible to confirm that the wife of Usman was the daughter of the prophet?
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